Cova des Coloms
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 View of the exit of the Cova des Coloms |
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| Location: | Es Migjorn Gran , Menorca , Spain | |
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Geographic location: |
39 ° 55 '58.5 " N , 4 ° 2' 20.2" E | |
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| Geology: | limestone | |
| Overall length: | 110 m | |
| Particularities: | prehistoric burial place | |
Cova des Coloms (German Taubenhöhle ) is a cave on the Balearic island of Menorca . It is located in the Binigaus gorge in the municipality of Es Migjorn Gran .
location
The cave is located in the Binigaus gorge about 1.6 km southwest of Es Migjorn Gran and is freely accessible. The next parking lot is at the local cemetery. The way over a private gravel road is signposted. At the junction of the path leading to the entrance to the cave, the Es Migjorn Gran municipality has put up an information board in Catalan, Castilian and English.
description
The cave is 110 meters long, 15 meters wide and 24 meters high. This enormous height has earned it the nickname “La Catedral”. It is divided into two areas. After a landing, the 50 m long main hall is followed by a lower, rapidly narrowing second room.
The Cova des Coloms was used as a burial place in the post- Talayotic period (550–123 BC) . The French prehistorian Émile Cartailhac found ceramics and human bones here in the 1890s . Excavations by Antonio Vives y Escudero (1859–1925) brought ceramic vessels and two bronze bull horns to light in 1914/15 .
The Cova des Coloms has been protected as a cultural asset ( Bien de Interés Cultural ) since 1966 . The registration number with the Spanish Ministry of Culture is RI-51-0003660.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information board on the way to the cave, seen on October 7, 2015.
- ^ Antoni Nicolau Martí, Elena Sintes Olives, Ricard Pla Boada, Albert Àlvarez Marsal: Talayotic Minorca . The prehistory of the island. Triangle Books, Sant Lluís 2015, ISBN 978-84-8478-640-5 , pp. 237 (English).
Web links
- Sa Cova d'es Coloms on the Illes Balears website